Mediaset Premium

Mediaset Premium is the pay TV service broadcast on digital terrestrial television that complements the Mediaset free-to-air offering. Mediaset Premium consists of two main packages: Cinema & TV Series and Football & Sport

Premium Play is the Over The Top service of Mediaset Premium. The On Demand offer is always included for Premium customers and contains a library of over six thousand content items across Cinema, Soccer, Series, Documentaries, Kids, and Infinity, in addition to a catch-up service for the free networks. Play On Demand is available on Smart Cam Wi-Fi, connected TVs, set-top boxes and consoles. In addition, thanks to Play Mobilità, it is possible to watch both on-demand content and live channels on tablets, personal computers and smartphones.

Mediaset Premium remains the benchmark for the most complete Pay TV offering of football in Italy thanks to its exclusive Champions League rights and the rights to the top eight TIM Serie A teams until the 2017-2018 season, complemented by the Premium Cinema package which provides TV premieres of films, as well as series and sit-coms thanks to agreements with Warner Bros (until 2020) and Universal (until 2018).

After the success of the final of the "UEFA Champions League 2015-16" (Real Madrid - Atletico Madrid) and the Milan - Inter derby (the first TIM Serie A match to be shown in live 4K), Mediaset Premium continued to invest during 2017 in the 4K production and distribution of major sports events such as Juventus - Milan in the TIM Serie A and the final of the "UEFA Champions League 2016-17" (Juventus - Real Madrid).

Thanks to an agreement with Samsung, Mediaset Premium has also made great films available in 4K ULTRA HD on the latest-generation 4K-enabled TVs, through the Premium Play and Premium Online apps, including highly visually impactful movies such as Mad Max: Fury Road, American Sniper, Focus, Magic Mike XXL and many more.

All 4K content is included free of charge in the package.

To heighten the quality of its products and improve the user experience, in 2017 Premium increased the number of HD channels with the launch of Premium Calcio 2 HD and Premium Energy HD. It also launched a project to develop its OTT services, which began with the redevelopment of the Premium Play user interface and will continue in 2018 with numerous important innovations for customers.

During the year, Mediaset Premium also embarked on a cost optimisation plan and a new Digital Transformation project, which will continue in 2018 and is aimed at building new capabilities in the areas of data analytics, user experience and customer service.

In also notice that during 2017 Sky Italia purchased the Uefa Champions League TV rights for the years 201-2021 while the assignation of Serie A TV rights for the same period (at first scheduled for June 2017) was concluded on February 2018 with the assignment to the intermediary Mediapro. The court ordered the resell procedure to be suspended until 4 May 2018 which upheld Sky urgent appeal.